Another "fine" Enhancement By The Cable Company, Anyone encounter this at an RV Park? Options

[DXSMac]

The RV Park I'm currently spending the winter at near Seattle just got notified by their cable company that the cable connection will no longer be "direct." Meaning, you cannot just hook up your cable cord and voila get TV. Guess what, every TV, even the digital ones, will require a "box." This basically means that the RV park will have to stock those boxes, and check one out to each customer if they want TV. And hope that the box will be returned.

Another alternative is that you have to have some type of "cable card" connect to your TV, even if you already have a digital TV.

Anyone encounter this at an RV park, where you cannot even watch cable without a "box?" I have never encountered this. Oh, and guess what, you need one "box" per TV. If you have more than one TV in the TV, you need one box per TV.

I have already seen the banners from the cable provider run across the programs while watching TV.

[jim crowl]

No, and have had cable at parks across the country.

That actually sounds like early 1970's technology.

I was at one park that had their own internal cable system- pulled in the channels on satellites, then wired them to all the sites on cable. They had a great mix of channels, and even a couple of their own park information channels. I don't know how expensive that was to set up, or if it might be an option. It would seem like the boxes would be a lot of extra work for the park too, and might even make a deposit necessary after a couple were lost or broken.

A dish would be an alternative. Of course if your cable is furnished now, by switching you would have "a box" as well as the expense.